Confess, accepting case of perjury -- it's intelligence work (6)
I believe the answer is:
spying
'intelligence work' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'confess accepting case of perjury' is the wordplay.
'confess' becomes 'sing' (I've seen this before).
'accepting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'case of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (outsides of).
'perjury' with its centre taken out is 'py'.
'sing' placed around 'py' is 'SPYING'.
'it's' is the link.
(Other definitions for spying that I've seen before include "Catching sight of; agent's job" , "Keeping furtive watch" , "Acting as a secret agent" , "Activity undertaken by Blunt and Philby" , "Engaging in espionage" .)